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Acamon

@ Acamon @lemmy.world

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  • PIC

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  • I agree with the basic message, but given that Wliam of Orange is known for massacring people who didn't agree with him, he's not a great poster boy for tolerance.

    And the Netherlands is so problematically racist that the UN had to make a special report about how their belief in their own tolerance and equality was a source of prejudice and promoting discrimination.

  • Why does a community called no stupid questions allow comments that say the question is stupid?

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  • I think your absolutely right that people shouldn't call a question stupid in c/nostupidquestions. But they can and should criticise a question for being a rant disguised as a question (eg. "Why are X people so stupid?"). More borderline is a questions that maybe meant in good faith but seems to have so many problematic assumptions built-in, that it's difficult to even engage with fairly. It might not be a stupid question, but it's been phrased in a way that makes so many wrong assumptions, that answering it becomes an unnecessarily difficult chore.

    I saw your question about veganism, and I can imagine some people took it as way of poking vegans. Vegans get a lot of hassle online, and are often asked to justify this or that, so asking "why don't they eat roadkill" (in so many words) could be seen as not coming from a genuine place of curiosity. I'm not saying your question wasn't genuine, but I can imagine that other people thought so.

    I do think your question falls into the "too many dumb assumptions". There were responses along the lines of "vegans don't eat meat, so of course they don't eat meat that has died naturally". And you responded with "I meant the philosophy not the diet". If that's true, then it was a "badly phrased" question, not a "stupid" one.

    Nostupidquestions is meant to be a place to ask questions that you feel like you should know, or everyone else seems to know. If you ask confusing or misleading questions, it's reasonable for people to respond with "that's not what veganism means" or whatever. But I do 100% think people shouldn't say it's a stupid question (although, having read through the thread I don't see anyone saying that to you...)

  • ND Memory

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  • I basically agree with you. But I will say that there's increasing research on the role of emotions in adhd that suggests that we are prone to having more extreme reactions. Everyone remembers the cringe moments but maybe we get more embarrassed about smaller things, and they stick in our mind. Similarly, everyone has difficulty moving on from something that enraged them but people have different thresholds for what throws them into that heightened state.

  • What game or platform has the best character creation setting?

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  • It's been a whole for me too, but I think some mods are better applied before a starting the game. Even if you save just after character creation the game has initialised a bunch of things and that might cause problems.

    I do think being able to save preset faces would be great. Sometimes when making a character, I make a model I kinda like, and I have to decide if it's worth the risk of trying something different and not being able to remake my original if the new one doesn't work out. Some games (mass effect?) represent each model with a code, which works pretty well. But I don't think skyrim does.

  • Wearing a helmet and a hat while biking

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  • If I saw someone wearing a helmet, with cap strapped on somewhere, I'd understand. It's practical, and it's pretty clear that your planning to wear it when you remove the helmet, you're not trying to make some sort of statement. Go for it! (as long as your cap strap is reliable...)

  • How much money do you think those generic porn sites that just link to other porn sites make?

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  • Definitely closer to 6-7

  • DAE in their 30s/40s/50s not really feel like an adult?

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  • I only really feel like an adult when I spend time with kids and young people. Even though the students I teach are at university, and thus technically adults... I'm always struck by how often they seem 'immature'.

    And to be clear, I don't even really mean that as a criticism. Sure, at times they don't pay attention and forget to do things and seem akward/nervous. But "adults' do all those things too. The difference is the adults have generally accepted these flaws and come up with coping strategies (both good and bad) like avoiding those situations, or blaming other people.

    So, what makes me feel like an adult is not that I'm on top of things, or that I'm no longer a mess. It's that I know I'm a mess, and I no longer hope that one day I'll get everything sorted, and tbh, that's fine.

  • Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway

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  • That's on me, there's a few typos in my reply. I was just saying I've never heard it, not that I think I will never hear it ever. And genuinely the only menfolk I've heard use it earnestly were akward teenage boys, and the older lads mocked them and told them they sounded lame.

    This is in the UK (and ten years ago), so maybe it's much more common in Australia or the US or something. But from the reaction it generally gets online, I get the feeling it's generally looked down on (outside of humor, or sci-fi).

  • You're doing it right now, aren't you?

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  • Unless I'm burned out, lying horizontal on my couch, using the smallest possible gesture to continue doomscrolling.

  • Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway

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  • I don't think people are bothered by "female coworker", which is perfectly normal. It's the reference to a "female-only" community, when the actual com is called WomensStuff and describes itself as "women only" and "a women's community".

  • The absolute state of MildyInfuriating@lemmy.world

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  • I just spent my lunch break searching through the mod log after I saw that your post had been removed. It's super irritating that, even though I'd commented in the original post, all I could see was it's title and that it had been deleted. I couldn't see how to see the username, or to sort the mod log by community, instead of by user or mod action.

    Anyway, I'm pissed on your behalf. Sure, the tone could have been more conciliatory, but you were posting about something that was irritating, but fundemtnally not a big deal. So, more on topic than the politics posts. And I don't think listing the mods and their activity is harressment, you weren't saying much except you didn't think the mod team was very active and had the receipts to prove it.

    I see there's another post today naming and shaming a user who posted in a women's only community, "quoting" a female coworker. I agree the poster is mildlyinfuriating, but I still think we'd be better blurring out individual user names, otherwise you're inviting harassment. (just like the thorn guy, who does irritate me, but is perfectly entitled to carry on doing so without people abusing him).

  • Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway

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  • I agree that the guy in the post is mildlyinfuriating at best, and much more likely a douche (never hear a woman use male as a noun like that, a very particular shibboleth). But I'm not sure I love. This community becoming half posts picking on specific users. Should we blur the usernames? Otherwise its an easy path to brigading and bullying.

  • Removed

    People who think an attack on another user is approproate for this sub, and the mods that enable them

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  • If there's really just one mod, then maybe they should pick a few other people to help manage the community. But if they're not willing to do that, and people are genuinely annoyed about the lack of modding then we should start an alternate community.

    It seems like a lot of posts on here are about frustration with modding (to be fair, it is only mildly irritating to me), so maybe there's enough support for a new community. Or is there a way to contact the instance mods and get more mods assigned, if the existing mod team aren't around?

  • Anyone else this way?

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  • When I lived alone I ended up airbnbing my spare room. It was sometimes stressful, but it meant my house was constantly tidy. As soon it was just me the entire house would sink in to madness.

  • When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation/sleep-mode"?

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  • Unless im sleep deprived or intoxicated, pretty instantly. But although I sleep pretty well, I generally wake up regularly through the night to turn over, flip my pillow etc. So, waking isn't usually a shock. Maybe if I got woken by an alarm I'd be confused, but generally I wake up a few minutes before my alarm.

  • Cloudflare went down today and took half of the internet with it. How does one company have that much impact? Do you think that's concerning?

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  • I think it's very concerning, but not exactly surprising. It makes sense that there ends up being market leaders for digital services, because they can provide economies of scale much more than traditional services. As another commentor pointed out, they're are alternatives, even just for back-up service providers, but most sites don't pay for them.

    What was more personally distressing was I realised how much I rely on lemmy when my instance, and backup instance, both went down. I'm not sure where I'd go for immediate news, especially about something niche like "why is lemmy down?". I don't use other social media and I found myself checking r/redditalternatives just to see if there was some info about the shutdown. Obviously, it was useless because reddit...

  • Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike

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  • Was there a specific event that coincided with the blackout? I don't know the details of current US events, just that they're crazy and depressing.

  • Monster

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  • This guy rocks! I don't know if you are into rpgs / d&d bum I'm sure loads of of osr designers would love giving this monster some game stats.

  • Andrew Jackson, age 13, Battle of Hanging Rock, 1780, Mouse Edition

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  • Love it. There is something oddly appealing about Mouse Guard / Mausritter stuff. I guess little heroic mice are cute, but they also recontextualise the natural world, which draws us into the scene. But it's really refreshing to see it with such a striking style and other modern touches (the little guy looks like he's ready for a Revolutionary War).